Yesterday, I zone into Burning Woods, wanted to take out some of the giants in the fort.
There is a druid and a ranger, outside of the fort, not actively engaged with anything.
There are pops inside the fort.
I pull one.
I kill the one I pulled, go back in for number 2.
ooc: Hey, Giant Fort is camped.
My response: SoE does not recognize camps, neither do I.
Their response: You are KSing us!!!
My retort: No mobs that I am pulling are actively engaged, therefore, I am not KSing you. We aren't talking about a raid pop. There are plenty more giants to go around. It's not like I'm pulling the entire fort.(which, I have successfully done, solo.)
This goes back and forth, for the next few minutes.
After my third "Kill-Steal," I finally ooc, "Fine. I think it's way more rude of YOU to not be able to share when there are PLENTY of mobs in there, and there is NO WAY you can possibly take them all, but because you are moaning about it so much, I will move elsewhere.
For the next 20 minutes, I received tells, from pretty much their entire guild, including a cross-server, cross GAME tell, from EQ2.
I told each person who sent me a tell that: I was not KSing, and I have already moved to a different location, and this REALLY doesn't concern you, seeing that you aren't even in the same zone (or in one instance, even playing the same GAME.) I then put them, in turn, on ignore.
So, here is my stance:
In a "camp" where there are mobs NOT being actively engaged, anything that hasn't been attacked is fair game.
Another such "camp" this brings to mind is the Giant Fort in Frontier Mountains, and I will almost guarantee, that if this situation had occured there vs. Burning Woods, this wouldn't have even have been an issue.
So, did I KS?
Furthermore, what is MORE rude? KSing someone, or getting at least 30 tells, from members of a guild who weren't even present, for 20 minutes more, AFTER I had moved?
I am well aware that Druids have the rap of KSing a ton of people. To my knowledge, I have KSed maybe twice my entire career (mind you, both of these instances were during the first week I had been playing the game, and honestly, did not know better - I just kinda saw something and attacked it.) 3 people that I know in Real Life, when they had first started out, I told them of the dangers of KSing, and told them that I was completely against it, in any form.
I like to think that I'm one of the "good" druids, and frankly, I can think of thousand other things I could have done that, to me, would have been much more detrimental, and much more annoying than KSing, which I didn't do.
But if I did something wrong here, I want to know, so that I can avoid it in the future.
Thanks, everyone.